Sometimes when we are really lucky we get to play with our fav. nieces! Here is one of my favorite pictures of Dallin and baby em and the other picture was from our sleepover at the cabin and some squirrels we found eating the caramel popcorn!!!

Dallin made two incredibly delicious dinners... so naturally I had to take a picture! The chicken and veges one was #1 enchilladas  took a close #2 place! He is such an awesome husband! And the other picture is what I did while making dinner... this is our pipe, I felt it was time we did a little experiment (and give dallin something to do other than sing songs over and over again to me!) So I ever so slyly poured grease from the hamburger down the drain and let dallin discover the effects..... :)

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The last-ish picture is cute Anna being the receptionist at the beautiful table of delicious food and cute plates/decorations done by the wonderful mothers!!! We also have Dallin drinking from the punch bowl!!! And the parents of course! It was really fun, we had a great turn out from of our awesome family and friends and we fed a few starving students who happened to walk by gazing longingly at the food!!!

Hi Guys

Hi... well Abby lost the cord that allows us to put pictures on here, but we have had a lot of fun things happen none the less. Since our last post we went to Disneyland, started school, studied until our brains were completely fried, and, a bit more recent piece of excitement, discovered that the utensils at Rammono's Macaroni Grill in Provo are magnetized! We were eating there last night and I was able to suspend my fork in the air by the magnetic force that was emitted by the knife... it was awesome.
Well that is about all of the excitement that we can handle around here. Only about one more month and the little man should be here!

IT's A BOY!!!

Dallin and I are proud to announce that our baby boy is looking healthy and wonderful and only has a few more months to cook! Mitchell Judd Palmer will be born (according to todays appointment) on December 10th!!! We are ridiculously excited! We celebrated by eating "boy food" for lunch- big burritos and chimichangas! And then went and bought him a darling set of athletic onzies!!! And we found a gift card so we grabbed a few maternity shirts for me while we were at the mall! Yeah!

We are home!!!

Well we are home! We had a fabulous time in Tonga! We are now just trying to recover from the jet lag and some stomach issues we acquired in the last little bit of Tonga.. Here are some pictures we promised we'd post when we got home!

SO it has been a little while...

Sorry that we have been a little lazy about doing anything on the blog for about... well .... a month now.`

Our life has been so weird since coming to vava'u and living with a family and washing ourselves in a tiny bin with a curtian that leaves you exposed to the world when there is wind.... awkward, our toilet was a small tin outhouse, our bed was filled with bugs and we lived off of flour, sugar and water deep fried for most meals... but really. We have loved it but it did turn our world upside down!!!

The family that we lived with was so generous and cute. The little kids would come around every morning to wake us up and let us know that it was time to play! We feel like our eyes were really opened and that we have a new perspective about life and what is important. These people really don't have alot of the things that we would call basic needs, but they get along happily and well.

We are now living with another family that is closer to the book project we are working on with a group of people and our professor that set everything up for us! Also we will be coming home on the thirteenth of this month... one week! So we expect lots of flower gifts, cookie dough... haha just kidding but really about the delicious cookie dough I have been craving since we got here!

WE love you all and are so excited to be coming home. We have a new love for Tonga and for the incredible amount of generous and kind people we have met here, both Tongan and Chinese! We are so grateful for our experience here, it has been life changing for us.

See you soon.
Pictures will come when we are back!!!